Ahead of the release of their seventh album, Where You Stand, Travis discuss
the story behind the LP's songs. In the fifth part (of six) they talk about
the song Another Guy.

After a five-year hiatus, Travis return with their seventh album, Where You Stand.

Where You Stand, the follow-up to the 2008 album Ode to J Smith, is – as singer Fran Healy puts it – “What we were put on the planet to do.”

In our six-part series, the band discuss the story behind each song on the album. In part fifth of their album commentary they talk about their song Another Guy.

Part six - A Different Room - will be online on Friday 9 August.

The album begins with the harmonic Mother, followed by the nu-wave sounding Moving and continues in a similar vain until the emotive first single and title track of the album, ‘Where You Stand’. The LP is brought to a close by cinematic piano ballad, The Big Screen.

Discussing the band's break from music, bassist Dougie Payne says: “You stay away as long as it takes so you feel that hunger and desire to get back to it same as you did at the start.”

In an interview with Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick, Healyadded: “In our business, there’s a trail of rock widows and orphans. The guys go off on the road and never return.

"There was a moment, when my son Clay was two, and we were looking at the little globe in the house, and I was going here’s where Nana is, and here’s Australia, and he said, ‘Where do you live, Papa?’ My heart broke.

"I was going ‘I live here with you’, and he had this incredulous look on his face – ‘no, you don’t.’ And he really meant it, because we spent so much time touring.”

During the making of the album Where You Stand, each member of Travis had their own selection of music that helped them along the way as they wrote and recorded the sings.

Here is Dougie Payne's album influences playlist:

With two number one albums, five Top 10 singles, two Brit Awards and more than 8 million record sales Travis crafted songs which resonated throughout UK households, striking a chord with hits such as Turn, Why Does It Always Rain on Me and Sing.

The album, Where You Stand, is out on August 19 on Red Telephone Box records